An early look at the first set of Googlebooks The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands and specs that rival Windows Copilot machines. For anyone eager to get their hands on any the new laptops, there’s a preorder perk you may want to know about lasting until October 25th, 2026. When you add … Read more
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
OpenAI cut prices 50% on its mid-tier models the same day Anthropic shipped a cheaper flagship, escalating a rivalry now measured in minutes.
If you read the first three parts of our series, you know the broad strokes: We took a lean “Notion + GitHub + Amazon SES” setup, faced a massive Q4 Black Friday surge, hired a smart $500-a-month student developer, and coded our first Markdown-to-HTML converter script to survive. On paper, it sounds like a slick, … Read more
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A stretched but firmly bullish Bitcoin chart is riding the same tailwind lifting stocks: falling oil, a record Nasdaq, and a Fed that hiked rates while quietly pumping liquidity into the system.
The theft of agents’ personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.
This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s Fellowship Program.
Bernstein now projects prediction markets will handle $10 trillion a year by 2035, up from its own $1 trillion by 2030 forecast made just five months ago.
A rare discount on Apple’s dark color keyboard. | Image: The Verge Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. This is the souped-up version of Apple’s full-size, wireless keyboard, with a … Read more
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and efficiency to each workload. The value of AI at scale depends on two dimensions: what a model can do and how often you can put it to use. Greater intelligence expands the complexity a model … Read more
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OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
Anthropic’s new flagship claims Fable 5.1-level performance at a fraction of the cost—but GPT-6 Astra still beats it on two published benchmarks.
San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald Trump’s posts on the social media site. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court, alleges that the Truth API feed is a “corrupt business scheme” that violates both California’s Unfair Competition … Read more
Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city to offer rides to minors.
Initial testing will focus on moving digital commercial deposits across participating institutions before linking to broader digital asset ecosystems.
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family. Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable Opus model suitable for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks. This post covers Claude Opus 5.5’s improvements, practical guidance, and … Read more
General-purpose agents handle a broad range of tasks, but you still need them to follow the procedures that run your business: compliance checks, document-processing workflows, escalation policies, engineering conventions. Encoding all of that in one system prompt or in application logic gets hard to maintain and update. Skills are a modular alternative. A skill is … Read more
Dogecoin is rallying, and once again, Elon Musk may have something to do with it.
The Whoop MG fitness band. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is working on a new fitness tracker with a screenless design, similar to the one made by Whoop, according to a report from Bloomberg. A prototype of the device reportedly has “a thin fabric band with a sensor-equipped computing module.” … Read more
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an “academy” positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The “Horowitz Andreessen Academy” will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. … Read more
Anthropic called it “the strongest-performing model we’ve tested to date.”
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company’s testing sandbox. It’s the first model released by Anthropic after CEO Dario … Read more
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